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EXCITING UPDATE: It’s a AAA RPG of Cyberpunk, the pen and paper RPG. It is being made by Witcher and Witcher 2 veterans. They’re saying stuff like “Advanced RPG mechanics” and “mature content”. Customisable characters, different classes. Lots of weapons. Non-linear. “Cutting edge looking game”. And also “not a game for everybody, for mature audiences.”

ORIGINAL STORY: The mystery sci-fi game from The Witcher devs CD Projekt Red is about to be announced over here. I’ll get more details up here as they arrive. All we have so far is the teaser image of a punk with techno-glasses and a gun (above) and the knowledge that it will be some kind of cyberpunkian thing.

This is fucking beyond amazing and has to be the best fucking news this year holy shit i’m too psyched to even bother with punctuation and shit holy fucking fuck this is beyond fucking beyond amazing fuck me!

Sorry bout the language (not really), but I love both Witcher games and the whole cyberpunk genre and pnp, so fuck me this is batshit crazy awesome and sounds really awesome! They better not screw it up though. But I doubt they will, based on the two excellent games they’ve already made.

You might like this – streamlined tabletop PnP Shadowrun hack posted online yesterday. Not mine but I love it so much. If you love regular Shadowrun but find it too complicated (like me), you may find this useful. Still in development: link to networkpipeline.com

Cyberpunk 2020 is just about the best interactive interpretation of Gibson’s work ever published though. It lifts everything from Neuromancer et al. FNFF was an interesting and brutal combat system too even if it had it’s problems. Should help the designers a lot having an existing framework.

Something that’s interesting about this is that THE WITCHER had a fixed protagonist with a distinctive look, so it made sense to have him on screen at all times (plus it was based on the NEVERWINTER NIGHTS engine, which required it). CYBERPUNK, presumably, should allow you to create your own characters and it won’t be necessary to adopt a 3rd-person viewpoint. It would be better if they gave you a choice, a la SKYRIM/FALLOUT though.

Sounds good, although I worry about adding “different classes.” One reason The Witcher was such a great game was that you could inhabit a pre-defined character who could be strongly written.

That could succeed again in a cyberpunk world with a character like Case from Neuromancer, written with a compelling back story and defined personality and skills. If they go open-ended on player creation, they could be entering the Bioware RPG zone here, and I’m not sure that’s their strong suit.

I’m VERY into cyber punk.. Sort of consider myself one, heh.
Witcher is probably the most I’ve enjoyed RPG, ever..
So this is awesome news and I seriously don’t look forward to a year of updates as I eagerly wait for what will likely be this kick ass game changing title.

They’ve already put DA in it’s place if you ask me.
NEXT UP. Show MA what scifi really is? : P Boo-yea.

80s aesthetics and remembering the “punk” in “cyberpunk” would be a welcome approach, although it remains to be seen if CDProjekt has the sense of style and understanding of the genre to pull it off. Still, this looks genuinely good.

Cool your heels folks! There was a translation error. The game isn’t actually based on the Pen n Paper Cyberpunk game, but the Billy Idol album ‘Cyberpunk’.
You can still expect bad eighties hair at least.

Its CDPR. They already proved they can hang with the big dogs, and even outdue them at their own game.

If there is any dev out there that can pull off a great story, interesting characters, some of the best visuals out there(graphics quality wise, and atmosphere wise), along with non-linear story telling, well only 1 dev can pull that off, its CDPR. No one else has delivered a game like The witcher 2.

Seriously the witcher 2 took every other RPG ever made, and made them it’s bitch. The sheer quality, the magnitude of the world, and the stories, with more consequences for your actions than any game ever made, and graphics whether Xbox 360 or PC pushed the genre forward. From an pretty much unknown dev with a small budget compared to AAA studios. The game just pretty much puts all genres to shame when it comes to what they accomplished. Look at the budget of COD and compare what that game actually delivers. Or compare the Mass effects, or Dragon ages.

TBH the bar might be set to high for CDPR now, but i feel like they can deliver. It is plainly obvious they love what they do, and when developers love what they do, it shows in their games. DA2 was made with no love, just money, and it shows.

I’m troubled by the AAA moniker… because as we ALL know, triple A games will from now on be online-only DRM ridden pieces of shit thanks to the uber-success of Diablo. Our cyberpunk dystopia has already arrived.

I’d imagine Windows first as it’s their home platform, then others when they’re further along (e.g. stuff like the Enhanced Edition saved them patching it in via MS’ horrible live patching bureaucracy)